Discuss the current state of television media. What are the most popular broadcast television news programs and how do they present the news? What is the effect of the proliferation of television news outlets? Does a desire for ratings and profits have a negative effect on news coverage? Should the government take greater steps to regulate broadcast media and ensure that they cover news events thoroughly?

The idea that the unresponsiveness of the federal government to Hurricane Katrina was

because most of the victims were Black could be called ________. a. hyperpluralist thinking b. a critique of the incompetence of FEMA c. an unfair blaming of nature for the disaster d. a pluralist interpretation of government inactivity e. a belief in an elite conspiracy

Gilpin argues that unlike wealth, power cannot be quantified because _________

a. we do not have a theoretical unit to measure the amount of force applied by one state to another b. it has a significant psychological component c. a state's power is, in practice, impossible to determine d. a state's power is measured relative to other states, not in absolute terms